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Meinrad CraigheadCrow Mother & the Dog God:A RetrospectiveMeinrad Craighead is an uncompromising artist, one who is fearless in portraying her visions of the spirit realms — the dark and mysterious as well as the luminous and ecstatic. She is also an honest and generous artist, offering her innermost reflections on her own life, telling her stories through word and image, deepening our understanding of the world and our places in it. She is a complex woman. She was raised Catholic in North Little Rock, Arkansas, and Chicago, and communicated with God from an early age. She became a Benedictine nun, taking her vows at Stanbrook Abbey in England, where she resided for fourteen years. When she made the difficult decision to leave Stanbrook — upon realizing that her need to live as a solitary, a contemplative, could not be met at the abbey — she returned to the United States to live in Albuquerque, where she had formerly taught at the College of St. Joseph, and she has lived there ever since. She spends much of her time in solitude (though she is very much a part of a strong community of friends and associates), writing, painting, drawing, and praying. She has embraced the southwestern Native American spiritual traditions and worships Crow Mother as she worships the Madonna. Meinrad has loved dogs since her childhood and enjoys a mutual respect and companionship with them. But all animals are sacred to Meinrad, and she has devoted much of her life to experiencing their spirit world through dreams, prayer. and shamanic journeys. She has danced with Mountain Lion and shapeshifted into Badger; she has flown with Raven and run with Coyote. Meinrad has worked extensively throughout her life in charcoal, colored inks, watercolor, and printmaking. She received her M.F.A. degree from the University of Wisconsin and won a Fulbright grant to study early medieval Catalan art in Spain. She travels as much as she can in North America and Europe, revisiting shrines and sacred places, conducting seminars, and giving lectures. This retrospective attempts to convey the enormous body of work that Meinrad Craighead has given to the world over the past forty years. Essays by Rosemary Davies, a writer who first met Meinrad at Stanbrook ; Virginia Beane Rutter, a Jungian analyst and the author of Embracing Persephone; and Eugenia Parry, an art historian and author of numerous books and essays on art and photography, discuss Meinrad's work with subtlety and insight. Meinrad Craighead: Crow Mother and the Dog God: A Retrospective is a tribute to an important visionary, a fine artist, and an inspiring life. 352 pages,
10 x 10 1/2 inches Includes chronology with photographs, list of plates, and index Smythe-sewn, casebound, with jacket Catalog Number A672 • ISBN 0-7649-2454-0 Available September 2003 ©2003 Meinrad Craighead Please order from: Pomegranate Communications, Inc. Box 808022 Pomegranate Europe
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